Just weeks after Piers Morgan’s former friend Donald Trump publicly ended their friendship by unfollowing him on Twitter, the Good Morning Britain presenter has spoken of his deep concern about the potential fallout from the US president’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
In a new interview with the Sunday Times (££), Piers also stated that Trump “doesn’t deserve” to be re-elected in November’s presidential election.
“Trump’s biggest Achilles heel has always been his complete inability to show empathy,” he tells the newspaper.
“Right now, I do not think he deserves to be re-elected.”
Piers then accuses the president of making things “deliberately worse” by “airing these stupid, crazy theories about detergents or urging people to ‘liberate’ themselves in Democrat states.”
“He is rousing people to view Democrat senators as tyrannical people,” he says.
“And they’re all heavily armed with semi-automatic weapons, and if, God forbid, they lose their jobs, have no income, are angry and are persuaded by Trump that his political opponents are being tyrannical, I can see some very ugly scenes. Aided and abetted by the president.
“And it’s shameful.”
The presenter, who was always a vocal champion of Trump, now admits that he might have got it wrong about his former friend.
“I found the hysteria about him, for a long time, ridiculously over the top and pathetic,” he says, before admitting: “I’m not sure it looks that way now.”
Last month, Piers called out Trump for his “senseless” coronavirus comments in his column in the Daily Mail.
Running under the headline ‘President Trump’s bats**t crazy coronavirus “cure” theories are not just shockingly senseless and stupid – they’re going to kill people’, it came after the president made a series of bizarre and unfounded comments about how to treat the disease.
At a presidential briefing, Trump told the assembled press: “I see the disinfectant, where it knocks out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that? By injection inside, or almost a cleaning.
“So, that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me.”
Needless to say, don’t inject yourself with bleach.